James 1:26

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Yf eny man amonge you seme deuoute, & refrayne not his toge: but deceaue his awne herte, this mannes deuocion is in vayne.

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  • Ps 141:3 : 3 Set a watch (o LORDE) before my mouth, yee a watch at the dore of my lippes.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no filthy communicacion proceade out of youre mouth, but that which is good to edifye withall, wha nede is, that it be gracious to heare.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For who so listeth to lyue, and wolde fayne se good dayes, Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes yt they speake no gyle.
  • Ps 34:13 : 13 Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes that they speake no gyle.
  • Jas 3:2-6 : 2 for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde, the same is a parfecte man, & able to tame all the body. 3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes yt they shulde obeye vs, and we turne aboute all the body. 4 Beholde also ye shyppes, which though they be so gret, and are dryuen of fearce windes, yet are they turned about with a very smale helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouerner wyll. 5 Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth, 6 and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell.
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 And se that ye be doers of ye worde & not heares only, deceauinge youre awne selues.
  • Eph 5:4 : 4 nether fylthines, ner folish talkynge, ner ieastynge (which are not comly) but rather geuynge of thakes.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let youre speach be allwaye fauorable, seasoned with salt, that ye maye knowe how to answere euery man.
  • Prov 10:31 : 31 The mouth of the iust wilbe talkynge of wysdome, but the tonge of the frowarde shal perish.
  • Prov 19:1 : 1 Better is the poore that lyueth godly, the the blasphemer that is but a foole.
  • Luke 8:18 : 18 Take hede therfore how ye heare. For who so hath, vnto him shalbe geue: but who so hath not, from him shalbe taken awaye, eue the same that he thynketh to haue.
  • Prov 13:2-3 : 2 A good ma shal enioye the frute of his mouth, but he that hath a frowarde mynde, shalbe spoyled. 3 He that kepeth his mouth, kepeth his life: but who so speaketh vnaduysed, fyndeth harme.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.
  • Ps 39:1-2 : 1 I sayde: I wil kepe my waies, that I offended not in my tonge. 2 And so I shut my mouth, whyle the vngodly layed wayte for me.
  • Deut 11:16 : 16 But bewarre, yt youre hert be not disceaued, that ye go asyde, & serue other goddes, & worshipe them,
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 But yf eny man thinke himselfe to be somwhat (whan in dede he is nothinge) the same disceaueth himselfe.
  • Prov 16:10 : 10 When ye prophecy is in ye lippes of ye kynge, his mouth shal not go wroge in iudgment.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a waye yt men thinke to be right, but the ende therof leadeth vnto death.
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 Wilt thou vnderstode o thou vayne man that faith with out dedes is deed:
  • Ps 32:9 : 9 Sela. I wil enforme the, and shewe the the waye wherin thou shalt go: I wil fasten myne eyes vpon the.
  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a waye, which some men thinke to be right, but the ende therof ledeth vnto death.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no ma disceaue himselfe. Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amoge you, let him become a foole in this worlde, that he maye be wyse.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by the which also ye are saued) after what maner I preached it vnto you, yf ye haue kepte it, excepte ye haue beleued in vayne.
  • 1 Cor 15:15 : 15 yee and we are founde false witnesses of God, because we haue testified agaynst God, that he hath raysed vp Christ, whom he hath not raysed vp, yf the deed ryse not agayne.
  • Gal 2:6 : 6 As for the that semed to be greate, what they were in tyme passed, it maketh no matter to me. For God loketh not on the outwarde appearaunce of men. Neuertheles they which semed greate, taught me nothinge:
  • Prov 21:26 : 26 He coueteth and desyreth all the daye longe, but the rightuous is allwaye geuynge & kepeth nothinge backe.
  • Isa 1:13 : 13 Offre me no mo oblacions, for it is but lost laboure. I abhorre youre incense. I maye not awaye with youre newmoones, youre Sabbathes and solempne dayes. Youre fastinges are also in vayne.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 The kepinge of dust, and folishnesse of herte hath turned them a syde: so that none of them can haue a fre conscience to thinke: maye not I erre?
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye haue sayed: It is but lost laboure, to serue God: What profit haue we for kepynge his commaundementes, and for walkinge humbly before the LORDE off hoostes?
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 But in vayne do they serue me, whyle they teach soch doctrynes as are nothinge but the commaundementes of men.
  • Mark 7:7 : 7 But in vayne do they serue me, whyle they teach soch doctrynes as are nothinge but the commaundemetes of me.
  • Gal 2:9 : 9 they perceaued the grace that was geuen vnto me. Iames and Cephas and Ihon, which semed to be pilers, gaue me and Barnabas ye righte handes, and agreed with vs, that we shulde preach amonge the Heythe, and they amonge the Iewes:
  • Gal 3:4 : 4 Haue ye suffred so moch in vayne? Yf it be els in vayne.

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